Testimony of Tuvia Goshen Goldstein, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child with an assumed Polish identity in various cities and with the partisans

Testimony of Tuvia Goshen Goldstein, born in Belzyce, Poland, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child with an assumed Polish identity in various cities and with the partisans Testimony of a childhood in Belzyce; help to refugees from Germany. German occupation, September 1939; confiscation of the apartment and photography studio; betrayal by Poles regarding the identity and hiding places of Jews; murder of Jews; in hiding in a barn during one of the "Aktions", 1942; move with his elder sister using an assumed Polish identity to Tarnobrzeg; receives forged documents; marriage of his sister to a non-Jew; learns Christian prayers; dyes his hair; life on the city streets with Polish children; discovery of his Jewish identity by a German soldier and escape; church visits; throwing of snow to Jewish deportees in train cars; visits of his mother who was in hiding in Rozwadow; move to Sandomierz a year later; watches the liquidation of the Sandomierz Ghetto; abuse and murder; contact of his brother-in-law and the Polish underground; joins the partisans with his sister and brother-in-law; life with partisans in Zabno; murder of his sister due to the discovery of his Jewish identity by one of the partisans; protection of himself and his mother by the brother-in-law; escape to Skierniewice; life with an assumed Polish identity; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Life in Lodz and Warsaw; displays of antisemtism after the war; aliya to Israel, 1949.